Reflections
March 21, 2014
Introduction to Flowing with a River by Dr. Ammaraj Joshi
Flowing with a River: Musings on Life and Society
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margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond;"><br /></span> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond;"><br /></span><br /> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN3K4mgGHCmvxlMO0wVyXZj5LFMZP_s6teich_698ymuIUrhyphenhyphenQQvofqX_YkKl9k6dDo1jSVjoTo-Jz0GTv1cWYOjYGCPgDPbCl63T4IeBvoXvobFu_Qm5n0kIWVKlPZOytQs4JfELG2Io/s1600/55453613_432499060841315_87958864342810624_n.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="595" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN3K4mgGHCmvxlMO0wVyXZj5LFMZP_s6teich_698ymuIUrhyphenhyphenQQvofqX_YkKl9k6dDo1jSVjoTo-Jz0GTv1cWYOjYGCPgDPbCl63T4IeBvoXvobFu_Qm5n0kIWVKlPZOytQs4JfELG2Io/s200/55453613_432499060841315_87958864342810624_n.jpg" width="155" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Flowing-River-Haris-Adhikari-ebook/dp/B00B3K6WOE">Book Review on Amazon</a></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></div> </div> <br /></div> </div> <br /> *******<br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><i>Life</i></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Life goes <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">through a tunnel</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><br />which we make</span></span></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of a certain length<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />to help ourselves</span></div> <span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">or not. </span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjyM2ZCMzFg2mCo_tYAuMjgxvecpNuCdd-0XBLyLA8fRSNvRhERH9BKvx7rqtU7OyYUNbe1fkty1IJGF9xao42RenBi9BrOVzq1odlNfjxtnAKBQp39FrNYgddRQf1W8FA5qtWBBHi6GE/s1600/book+review.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="443" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjyM2ZCMzFg2mCo_tYAuMjgxvecpNuCdd-0XBLyLA8fRSNvRhERH9BKvx7rqtU7OyYUNbe1fkty1IJGF9xao42RenBi9BrOVzq1odlNfjxtnAKBQp39FrNYgddRQf1W8FA5qtWBBHi6GE/s320/book+review.jpg" width="147" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Book Review in The Kathmandu Post</td></tr> </tbody></table></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> *******</div> <br /> <br /> <i><span style="font-size: large;">Turn by Turn </span></i><br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Ants swarming upon the dead enemy— <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> the snake gives all it has, eventually. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> So oily— in the sweltering sun, it lies<o:p></o:p></div> like broken beads— beside the pond.<br /> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="Normal2" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond;"><br /></span> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond;"><br /></span></div> <div class="Normal2" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond;">*******</span></div> <div class="Normal2" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond;"><br /></span> <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond;"><br /></span></div> <div class="Normal1" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Cavity</i></span><br /> <br /> <br /> Prodding<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> with a stick<br /> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> a stinking decayed present<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> on the pavement, <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> came a small boy <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> in tattered dreams, nagging</div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> for a rupee or two.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> He interested me <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> as I saw myself <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> drifting in his eyes.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> He had a hunger bit tongue<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> and clear cavities<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> on his tiny palms.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> I then <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> had just a coin<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> that I could spare.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> I gave it to him.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> The coin went in the hole<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> and became a pebble <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> like the ones scattered<br /> <br /> everywhere </div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /> down in the street...<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> He seemed sad<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> as I walked on, and now <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> this poem...<o:p></o:p><br /> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> May this poem<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> not go—just like the dollar did—<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="Normal2" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> </div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> into the poor <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> hands of God. </div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> *******</div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /> <br /> <i><span style="font-size: large;">Suffocation </span></i><br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">My days begin with short sighs<br /> and end with a long one.<br /> <br /> Reluctantly, I look back<br /> at the miles completed each day.<br /> They resemble the scribbling<br /> of a young child. Meaningless—<br /> like a dream lost in the waking. My desires<br /> are red coals in a furnace. My soles—<br /> on sharp edges— moving to re-realize<br /> that change is like a slow, painful death.<br /> <br /> What zigzags and circles<br /> this life has become!<br /> Like strands of straw entangled<br /> on the spike of a moving bicycle,<br /> I’m just making much noise of myself.<br /> In the extremes of angry thoughts,<br /> I curse and confess. I explain<br /> to my people why I’ve been so negative.<br /> And all they do is sigh with me!<br /> <br /> Thwarted, my life is— a creature in a cage,<br /> restless; a fish on a hook, gasping and giving itself<br /> to the hookers. I see them enjoy<br /> the dish that they turn me into. My sweat<br /> is their salt; my weakness, their strength.<br /> They’re black cobras that don’t stop following<br /> even in my dreams. I don’t feel sorry but mad,<br /> mad at these sinful souls.<br /> <br /> They stink from afar. I see my flesh<br /> stuck between their teeth. Their yellow teeth<br /> that I want to yank. Their treacherous tongues<br /> that I want to sever. Their whole system<br /> that I want to put on fire. Shameless!<br /> They dance a naked dance in their vanity<br /> and lose sense of who their mother is. What,<br /> what can be expected in these crowds of bogus people?<o:p></o:p></span></em></div> </div> <br /> <br /> *******<br /> <div> <br /></div> <br /></div> <div class="Normal1" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><i>O Pilgrims!</i></span></div> <div class="Normal1" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> <br /></div> <div class="Normal1" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> <br /></div> <div class="Normal1" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> O pilgrims! O pilgrims!<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Would you care to listen to my plea?<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> I fled to this place from a hundred hills away<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> losing my family in the wildfire<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> that smoldered for years in the villages.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Who can see the wounds I have?<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Who can put some balm on them?<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> O pilgrims! I’ve haunting images in my dreams,<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> and I fear my mind will blast!<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> I fear not people but me.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Seeking solace, I sleep on this footway<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> and wake up to fuel my fury<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> in the midst of nights<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> I drink fire<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> and try to quench my thirst.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Oh, I’m burning in the belly, in my heart—<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Can you see the flames?<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> My plight!<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Ah, what a plight!<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Life is a street dog<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> that barks at me as I try to love it.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Please, oh please,<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> convey my questions to your Gods. Ask them,<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> ask them why<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> they turn their backs on me.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> O pilgrims! Ask them<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> what vengeance they took<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> on my family, and why,<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> and now, what they require of this boy that I am.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Uprooted, I was left to see<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> my origins dry. Ah, Poor me! I was just nine.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Now I do not have my sky.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> I do not have land beneath my feet.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> I’m a stranger in my own country,<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> walking in this stabbing void<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> among the sharp debris of my roof<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> blown off with cruelty<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> by the giants of the Age.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> I know not where to go—<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> O pilgrims! I know not how to live, <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> carrying this<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> painful vista<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> of dislocation.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Please, oh please, <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> tell them<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> to move this way<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> and see for themselves<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> how desperately<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> a boy is looking for<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Gods . . . in this Valley of Gods*!<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> ________________<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">* Kathmandu Valley is well-known for its innumerable temples and stupas and is often called The Valley of Gods.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /> *******<br /> <br /> <br /> <i><span style="font-size: large;">If she were a witch </span></i><br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> If she were a witch, I guess you wouldn’t be living.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> There was no earthquake in her screams, she was nothing<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> but wounds all over— red, blue, brown, purple—<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> bleeding on the junction— <i>a matter of extreme curiosity for kids around </i><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <i>peeping from below your hips, or running after your footsteps.<o:p></o:p></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Perhaps her busted head was a football!<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Perhaps your boots, canes and stones were not enough, so <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> she was yelling at you to drag and thrash her more!<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> If she were a witch, I guess you wouldn’t be living.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Either she would surely escape flying on her broomstick<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> or just vanish with a simple click of her fingers right in the beginning <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> or furiously hurl you into a dark cave where<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> she would avenge by forcing you to eat human feces<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> the way you forced her, or, she would hammer your hands and legs<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> and teach you a lesson by pulling out your teeth<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> with more force and fury than you used to display your bravado.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> If she were a witch, I guess you wouldn’t be living<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> and your children wouldn’t die of dysentery or of fever. <i>Possession<o:p></o:p></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <i>is what you did to her, not what she did or did not.<o:p></o:p></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> She— just a single finger, and you— an entire village,<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> what a mad swarm of bees stinging a life to almost death! <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Neither she spoke scary words nor called a thunder down. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> What’s black magic? Why would she only leave the marks of her teeth<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> on your thighs or arms when she could have the whole of you?<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p>_________________________________________________ </o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <b><i>(Note: </i></b><i>Witchcraft is still thought to be real in different communities. Once in my adolescence, I happened to see a shocking display of barbarism being practiced upon a helpless widow from the same community. People were beating her almost to death, with whatever they came by. One woman even brought a kettle of hot water and poured over her. They said that the woman would practice witchcraft and she had possessed their children and sickened them. According to them, she would come to their houses in the form of a cat when they were asleep at night and suck their blood. And that was why, they said, they decided to punish her with the help of their village shaman. </i><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> <i>After that incident, I’ve heard about a number of other such inhuman cases— some even reported in the national media. So, I’d like to dedicate this piece to such innocent people who had (and have) nothing to reveal but suffer.) <o:p></o:p></i></div> <br /></div> </div> <br /> <div class="Normal2" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> *******</div> <div class="Normal2" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><i>Dying to Regain my Color</i></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Into the valley of dirt<br /> and all of a sudden<br /> this miserable me, trying<br /> to make my way<br /> through the stinking hell of heights— dying<br /> to regain my color<br /> in this muddled, gravy plight— inching<br /> below the cold, murky sky.<br /> <br /> Who says I wanted all this<br /> that I have become ?<o:p></o:p></span></em></div> </div> <br /> <br /> *******<br /> <br /> <br /></div> <div class="Normal2" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><i>Into the Deep </i></span></div> <div class="Normal2" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> <br /></div> <div class="Normal2" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> There is a sea, oh, there is a sea<o:p></o:p></div> inside myself, there is a sea---<br /> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> mad, more mad than I can be. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> No one knows how I break in its rise,<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> giving away all I have---<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> little by little to its tides<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> like a flower so fragile<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> I go off the shore in pieces, pushed away<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> and away into the deep<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> among the ruins unspoken of,<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> I lie still and shattered, trying<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="Normal2" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"> </div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> to collect myself in the saline waters.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing"> *******<br /> <br /></div> <i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://harisadhikari.blogspot.com/2019/03/some-poem-from-flowing-with-river.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://harisadhikari.blogspot.com/2019/03/some-poem-from-flowing-with-river.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2014-03-20T02:52:00-07:00'>March 20, 2014</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://harisadhikari.blogspot.com/2019/03/some-poem-from-flowing-with-river.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/7580739404582066403/5542285151539382469' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-467251920'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7580739404582066403&postID=5542285151539382469&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7580739404582066403&postID=5542285151539382469&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=7580739404582066403&postID=5542285151539382469&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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